Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The reason that number is not in the budget is we're not changing the arrangements. That's the point that I'm making. The only change that's being proposed is the change being proposed by those opposite. We are supporting small businesses in a more responsible way. We've helped with energy bills that they opposed, with an instant asset tax write-off that they tried to hold up in the Senate, with cybersecurity, with competition policy and in other ways.

I know that they are terribly embarrassed today because they couldn't hand in their homework. They either didn't know or wouldn't say how much their policy costs. We've done their homework for them. The policy that they're trying to inflict on the Australian people would have workers shout lunches for their bosses and would smash an up to $10 billion hole in the budget as a consequence.

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